{"id":14163,"date":"2013-08-22T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14163"},"modified":"2013-08-22T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T00:47:52","slug":"rating-seriousness-of-crimes-against-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/22\/rating-seriousness-of-crimes-against-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating Seriousness Of Crimes Against The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Economic Perspectives<\/em> (NEP) has the video <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2013\/08\/neps-william-black-appears-on-huffpost-live.html\" title=\"New Economics Perspectives blog post\" target=\"_blank\">NEP\u2019s William Black appears on HuffPost Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe legal culture of big-time settlements can short-circuit the law, protecting wrongdoers from punishment, trial or even an admission of guilt. That\u2019s just what the government has done for the major banks implicated in sweeping mortgage fraud. Is it too late to rectify the big banks role in the housing and financial crisis? Bill and other panelists speak with Alyona Minkovski on this subject.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.live.huffingtonpost.com\/HPLEmbedPlayer\/?segmentId=5212a5fdfe34442034000801\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I post this especially for reader DavidF who thinks that money spent on welfare is as serious a problem to solve as is the problem of the country&#8217;s elites robbing us blind.  So here are my numbers as hinted at in the above video.  I am waiting to see David&#8217;s numbers for his case of the money wasted on welfare payments to the poor being as serious an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Economic Perspectives (NEP) has the video NEP\u2019s William Black appears on HuffPost Live. The legal culture of big-time settlements can short-circuit the law, protecting wrongdoers from punishment, trial or even an admission of guilt. That\u2019s just what the government has done for the major banks implicated in sweeping mortgage fraud. Is it too late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}